Chronic Disability

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lifetime attention and impacts on a person’s life significantly. The extent of a chronic disease complicates in defining chronicity. Disability may depend not only on the kind of condition and its severity but also on its implications on the individual. The degree of disability and altered lifestyle relates more to the patient’s perceptions and beliefs about the disease then to the disease itself. Chronicity can be defined as an illness and as a disease. Disease refers to the pathophysiological aspect of the condition meanwhile illness is a more human experience of symptoms and suffering. (Lubkin and Larsen, 2013)From a nursing prospective an illness approach to chronicity is more important as compared to a disease approach as the illness …show more content…

Families help in general ADLs, decision making in regards to treatment, provide emotional support and help to handle stress. Family based interventions help in improve physical and mental health for both patient and family members compared to individual based standard care. Individualised based standard care mostly focus on increasing the individuals knowledge, awareness of the situation which is equally important however it ignores the contexts in which individuals live with chronic conditions. Therefore healthcare providers must implement and understand that family interventions will be effective in chronic health self-management. (Thirsk and Clark …show more content…

However in Australia only half of patients receive optimal quality care in regards to chronic illness. This is due to limitations towards the multidisplinary team approach due to limited allied health services and increased waiting time for accessing allied health services in the community and restrictions on Medicare health funded services.GP incentives have provided little support towards chronic health self-management. Evidence based policies and guidelines in regards to common chronic illnesses such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease haven’t been systematically incorporated into practise information systems and there’s a decrease in continuing professional development for clinical audit requirements. (Harris and

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